Display-frame.



- No. 823,339. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

G. E. LEIGH & J. A. COLEMAN.

DISPLAY FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1, 1905.

WITNESSES. lNVE/VTC'HS Georye ELeL'y/a UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. LEIGH AND JOHN A. COLEMAN, OF MOUNT CARROLL, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY-FRAME.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906.

To (1. 11/71/0111, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. LEIGH and JOHN A. COLEMAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Mount Carroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Dis lay-Frame, of which the following is a full, 0 ear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a display-frame especially adapted to be slipped over the lid or cover of a cigar-box when opened to frame the picture usually displayed upon the inside of the cover and to so construct said frame that when it is placed in position upon said cigar-box cover or lid the said cover will be prevented from accidentally closing and whereby also the cover will be held in a position best adapted for the display of the frame and picture framed thereby.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarbox and the improved frame applied thereto. Fig. 2 is arear elevation of the box and applied frame; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the open cover of the box, the applied frame,-and a portion of the box-body.

A represents a cigar-box, andB the cover of the same, which is usually decorated with a picture upon its inner side, and C represents the framing device for the picture. The frame consists of an upper and a lower member 10 and 11 and connecting side members 12 and 13. The said members may be made in any desired type or style, and in the drawings the corners of the frame are provided with ornaments 14. When such ornaments are employed, the upper ones may extend beyond the upper edge of the frame; but the lower portions of the lower ornaments are preferably flush with the lower edgeof the frame.

A longitudinal marginal rib 15 is formed at the back of the upper member 10 of the frame, being located at the upper edge of the said member, and the said rib 15 is met at its ends by marginal ribs 15 longitudinally formed upon the back of the said members 12 and 13 at their outer edges, the bottom member 11 of the frame being without a rib. The

inner dimensions of the frame are such that it may be slid over the cover B of the cigarbox A, the cover bearing snugly against the ribs 15 and 15 as is shown in Fig. 2. Diagonal keepers 16 are located at the back of the frame at its u per corners, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, each l eeper consisting, preferably, of a piece of Wireof suitable gage, having one end driven into a rib 15 and the other end into a side rib 15 When the frame C is placed upon the box-cover B, the upper corners 'of the cover are received beneath the said keepers 16, as is shown in Fig. 2. Two other keepers 17 are also located on the back of the frame at its lower corners; but the said lower keepers 17 are pivoted keepers. The keepers 17 are preferably made of wire, and the upper ends of said keepers are pivotally connected with the lower portions of the side ribs 15'"-, and said keepers 17 are made of such length that their lower free ends will engage with the back of the body of the box when the cover B is in an upright position.

In the construction of the keepers 17 the material is carried forward near the lower end, forming shoulders 18, which receive the lower edges of the cover B and form terminal tongues 19, which engage with theback of the box-body, as stated, when the cover is upright and prevent the cover dropping backward, while the lower member 11 of the frame C prevents the cover dropping forward to any great extent by reason of said member engaging with the upper edges of the ends of the box A.

When the frame is to be laced in position or removed from position, t e pivoted keepers 17 are carried outward to the dotted position shown at the right in Fig. 2, and after the frame is in position said kee ers are carried over the back of the box an its cover in direction of each other, as is shown by full lines in the same figure.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A framing device, consisting of a frame, diagonal upper corner-keepers at the back of the frame, and pivoted keepers also at the back of the frame and located at the lower corners thereof, the lower ends of the pivoted keepers being free.

2. A framing device, consisting of a frame having outer marginal ribs at its back on its upper and its side members, the bottom member being without a rib, diagonal keepers lo- IIC cated on the back of the frame at the upper c'orners thereof, and lower kee ers pivotally attached at one end to the bac of the frame adjacent to its lower corners, the outer ends of which lower keepers are free.

3. A framing device, consisting of a frame the top and side members whereof are provided with outer marginal ribs at the back, the lower member of the frame being without a rib, fixed keepers located at the back of the frame at its upper corners, extending diagonally from the side ribs to the upper rib, lower keepers pivoted at their upper ends to the lower portions of the side members of the frame, said lower keepers being free at their outer ends and being provided with a forwardly-extending shoulder adjacent to their lower ends, and a terminal lip.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. LEIGH. JOHN A. COLEMAN. Witnesses:

CHARLIE GILLoeLY, H. EDGAR COLE. 

